NEWS: WINTER 2018

Kaia was a guest on the NYC-based podcast Nonprofit Tangent for their Environment Episode alongside Robert Lee of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine who has found a way to make enormous environmental gains while helping support New York’s food insecure and Justin Bulova & Emily Stewart of Grades of Green which is showing students and children everywhere that they can also be environmental leaders.

FILM FESTIVAL: NOVEMBER 2018

Episode 1 of the new season of Climate Countdown has been chosen by the Direct Short and Documentary Film Festival as part of their November line-up. We’re excited to start screening the new episodes at festivals around the world!

we win best psa in kuala lumpur!

AWARD: OCTOBER 2018

We were very honored that the judges of the 11th Annual Kuala Lumpur Eco Film Fest (KLEFF) chose our courts short as the Best PSA of the festival! Kaia was out in Malaysia to accept the award and attend the festival organized by the EcoKnights and dedicated to raising awareness about environmental issues. A big thanks to the wonderful team at KLEFF for being such great hosts!

AWARD: SEPTEMBER 2018

We are excited to announce that our Courts Short received a Silver Award in the Short Film category at the 2018 Handle Climate Change Film Festival (HCCFF)! Alongside this Post-it Sized short, Season 2 of Climate Countdown made its World Premiere in Shenzhen, China, when HCCFF also screened Episode 1: Taking on the Climate Challenge, which was released during the Global Climate Action Summit, and Episode 2: Taking it to the Courts, which will come out in October.

FILM FESTIVAL: SEPTEMBER 2018

Episode 1: Taking on the Climate Challenge and Episode 2: Taking it to the Courts will be making their World Premieres at the HANDLE CLIMATE CHANGE FILM FESTIVAL (HCCFF) in Shenzhen, China, on September 17th. HCCFF is the first film festival held in China with a focus on climate change and Climate Countdown is proud to be taking part in this year's event.

CLIMATE ACTION ARTICLES PUBLISHED BY NEW CLIMATE COUNTDOWN INTERN

NEWS: SEPTEMBER 2018

Alongside being an amazing addition to the Climate Countdown team, our new intern Danielle Fossett has been busy writing articles about the urgent need to take action on climate change. Two of her articles have recently been published in online news sources: The Curse of Climate Deception, published by The Trouble, looks at Iceland for successful examples of how the US could transition to clean energy and Are We Choosing Polluters' Profits Over Public Youth Health?, published by Clean Technica, investigates the effect new EPA greenhouse gas restrictions will have on public health. Way to go Danielle!

FILM FESTIVAL: July 2018

From France to Germany and now to India! In July our Taking it to the Courts post-it-sized short will be screened in Punjab. We're excited to be bringing the story of how people are using the judicial system to push for climate action to film festivals around the world.

AWARD: JUNE 2018

Berlin Flash Film Festival's monthly screenings are held at the Apollo Theater in the SI Centrum and our post-it-sized short Taking it to the Courts was screened alongside other monthly winners this June. Great to have Climate Countdown represented in Berlin!

AWARD: JUNE 2018

Our first short produced for season 2 about how people are taking the climate challenge to the courts won the gold within its category of 2 minute spots about climate solutions at the 2018 Deauville Green Awards. The Taking it to the Courts post-it sized short was screened alongside other sustainability focused films on Tuesday June 19th in Deauville, France.

AWARD: JANUARY 2018

Director Kaia Rose was delighted to be able to be a guest at Barbados Independent Film Festival, where Climate Countdown was screened on the beach at Southern Palms Hotel after a beautiful Caribbean sunset. She was so excited that she was there to accept our award for Best Short on the Beach - it was a wonderful way to close out the festival and a great start to 2018.

film festival: JANUARY 2018

film festival: November 2017

Climate Countdown made its Caribbean premiere in Trinidad and Tobago!

climate countdown screens in los angeles

film festival: october 2017

Director Kaia Rose went with Climate Countdown to Awareness Festival on October 14th, where our Carbon Pricing episode was screened at the LA Live Regal movie theater in downtown LA along with a block of other climate short films. She was also asked to be on two panels, one on the role of personal journeys in documentary film and another on the impact of social change films, both fiction and non-fiction.

CONNECT4CLIMATE FACEBOOK LIVE SESSION

Panel: May 2017

“This is the issue of our times. Climate change is the biggest issue.” The filmmaker, Kaia Rose, stresses the importance of discussing this global matter on a Connect4Climate Facebook Live Q&A on Thursday, May 11th, with Eric Mann. They were both responsible for the production of “Climate Countdown: Price on Carbon”, Film4Climate Global Video Competition’s short-film winner of the Put A Price On Carbon Pollution Award..

film festival: March 2017

film festival: february 2017

Climate Countdown was selected for the Environmental Film Festival Ekotopfilm in Bratislava, Slovakia.

winner best web-series at lake view film festival

film festival: february 2017

LAKE VIEW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, PUNJAB BHAWAN, INDIA

Our jury screens the monthly selections Privately and from there we select the winners. Only the winning films will get a chance to participate in a second selection at the end of the year. If they pass the second selection, we'll screen them at our annual event.

carbon pricing screenings

screening & PANEL: december 2016

Special Screening of "Priceless" Years of Living Dangerously Episode, in collaboration with National Geographic. Panel discussion on carbon pricing with Tom Erb, Put a Price On It, Joe Romm, Founding Editor of Climate Progress, Kaia Rose, Film4Climate Winner, and James Close, Director, Climate Change Group, World Bank Group. Discussion moderated by Tom Kerr, Head, Carbon Pricing Leadership Coalition. Part of the #C4CZone, at the World Bank, 6 December 2016. Introduction by Max Thabiso Edkins, Climate Change Expert, Connect4Climate, World Bank.

The Connect4Climate Digital Media Zone (#C4CZone) was presented in parallel to the Legal, Justice and Development Week and the Climate Investment Funds annual meetings, at the World Bank. It was a 4 day-long communication initiative that offered an interactive media hub and gathering space for conference attendees, students, NGOs and private sector representatives.

The Connect4Climate Digital Media Zone (#C4CZone) was presented in parallel to the Legal, Justice and Development Week and the Climate Investment Funds annual meetings, at the World Bank. It was a 4 day-long communication initiative that offered an interactive media hub and gathering space for conference attendees, students, NGOs and private sector representatives. The Connect4Climate Digital Media Zone delved into topics covered during the Legal, Justice and Development Week and the Climate Investment Funds annual meetings including climate action and implementing solutions, in particularly through a legal and youth lens. The audience was mostly students from local universities and local NGOs, together with roughly 2000 legal specialists, climate experts and policy makers from all over the world attending the other meetings.

WINNERS IN FILM4CLIMATE COMPETITION ANNOUNCED

FILM FESTIVAL: NOVEMBER 2016

Inspiring the Climate Action Agenda at the Marrakech Climate Conference COP22, the winning filmmakers of the World Bank Group’s 2016 Film4Climate Global Video Competition were celebrated on the large screen on Sunday in Marrakech, Morocco, and received awards for achievement in filmmaking around themes supporting the Sustainable Development Goals.

COP22 YOUTH & FUTURE GENERATIONS PANEL

PANEL: NOVEMBER 2016

The Intergenerational Inquiry is the highlight of the Young and Future Generations Day. It is organized jointly by YOUNGO, the UN Joint Framework Initiative on Children, Youth and Climate Change, and the UNFCCC secretariat. It provides an opportunity to engage youth delegates from around the world with key players on the intergovernmental climate change arena. This year will focus on role of youth in implementing the Paris agreement..

article: january 2016

Kaia Rose (BA 2010) is a filmmaker based in New York. She launched her web series, Climate Countdown, in 2015, aiming to break down the complex issue of climate change, and determine what scientists, activists, policy makers and citizens are doing to help solve the problem. We spoke to Kaia about climate change, Climate Countdown, and the recent COP21 summit in Paris...

article: december 2015

Wondering what’s going on in Paris? And why you should care? A team of young people working on climate issues from many perspectives—policy, science, media, activism—have created Climate Countdown, a video web series that follows the people who are crafting paths toward a meaningful climate agreement at the Paris climate summit. At the heart of it, Climate Countdown is director Kaia Rose’s personal journey to find out what people are actually doing to tackle the climate crisis and how we, as ordinary citizens, can push for solutions...

SNEAK PREVIEW & DISCUSSION AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

SCREENING & PANEL: November 2015

On November 15th, 2015, the Sustainability Media Lab will host a sneak preview of the Climate Countdown webseries -- a media project that promotes greater understanding of international climate policy and helps to engage & empower the public to support urgent climate action. The event will showcase episodes from the series, as well as two separate expert panel discussions on the webseries and climate media at large, and the entire event will be livestreamed to student groups gathered at Yale and Lehigh Universities for coordinated screenings.

Behind the Scenes from the Plan to Save the World

Kaia Rose knew she didn’t know enough about what the world is doing to solve climate change, so she’s making a film (in several parts, presented on YouTube) for young people like her to watch and learn. And it’s become a record of the steps up to the pivotal meeting about the fate of the planet, which starts at the end of next month in Paris.

Rose’s project is a fascinating tour of people and organizations coming together over the course of 2015 to hammer out an agreement that can be approved in December, and set the world on a path of hope. Angie Koo talked to Kaia to find out how she got started earlier this year, what it’s been like, and what she plans next...

PANEL: NOVEMBER 2015

In only a few weeks, global leaders will gather in Paris for a major climate summit to decide what our future is going to look like – but most citizens don’t even know this is happening.

Climate Countdown distills the complexity of UN negotiations and climate action into concise and conversational “post-it” sized episodes. We are on a journey to discover what is actually being done to help make 2015 a game-changing year for the climate crisis. With each episode, we build a better understanding of how the pieces fit together and how we, as citizens, can be engaged and empowered as we countdown to Paris.

PANEL: OCTOBER 2015

Filmmaker Kaia Rose speaking to students in Professor Percival’s Environmental Law class about how to make environmental law films. Ms. Rose currently is filming interviews for her website www.climatecountdown.org. She filmed interviews with students from China, Costa Rica and the U.S. who are in Prof Percival’s class and was a judge for the students' film festival.

As Paris accord approaches, watch Climate Countdown

ARTICLE: JULY 2015

Filmmaker Kaia Rose joined the NYC chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby in January 2015. Although concerned and conscious about climate change, Kaia knew little about climate change activism and international climate change policy. She thought, if she herself, a concerned individual, did not know that a pivotal treaty affecting the course of our planet’s future is currently in negotiations, others probably aren’t aware either...

INTERVIEW: JULY 2015

Spencer Schect sat down with Kaia Rose in NYC to talk about her web series The Climate Countdown. Kaia and her friends are tracking the UNFCCC process in video blog format and breaking down the moving parts for all of us to understand.

climate countdown is an award-winning web-series based in ny

We map out the ecology of climate solutions by breaking these complex issues into bite-sized bits. All 16 episodes of season 1 are online now and the series is playing in festivals around the world. Season 2 is currently in production.